Biografia
I have been created in the culture's vision, educated as everyone else is (more or less?) taught to take part in the rituals of the everyday: drink coffee, watch news, work, shop, shop, shop till you drop! My work is a journey to examine contemporary culture, the all American consumer culture that has spread through every aspect of our existence.
We consume to live, but what happens to the objects of desire we've already consumed? I take the cast off collective junk of this culture and create these idols/icons: Religious figures and action figures. These found objects, from my family, from the neighborhood thrift store, from the trash heap become idols or objects of worship. First as trash, once they are transformed their new meaning and value is yet to be determined.
The gods of nature seem to be gone. But god is in everything, a tree, a rock, a plastic trophy (with fake gold finish of course), it all has some element of the divine. The divine grows through transformation, creating through salvage and scavenging. Maybe I've just become a zealous faction of the consumer religion? I want more stuff but I can't seem to throw anything away, I need to glorify the waste of our culture as a testament to... well, something?
